Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.